“Love hurts”—as the saying goes—and a certain amount of pain and difficulty in intimate
relationships is unavoidable. Sometimes it may even be beneficial, since adversity can lead …

Abstract Purpose of Review The 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM-5) categorizes gambling disorder in the section on substance …

(Palgrave Macmillan 2014). In Better Humans? I focused on the concept of human
enhancement as an enhancement of the human as a human and looked at the normative …

Love addiction is a dysfunctional relational modality that takes on the addiction
characteristics and which, for the individuals who suffer from it, can have a negative and …

The moral enhancement (or bioenhancement) debate seems stuck in a dilemma. On the one
hand, the more radical proposals, while certainly novel and interesting, seem unlikely to be …

Pharmaceuticals or other emerging technologies could be used to enhance (or diminish)
feelings of lust, attraction, and attachment in adult romantic partnerships. Although such …

Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise is about the bright and dark aspects of sports
and exercise behavior and revolves around two closely related yet distinct concepts …

Building upon animal-model, human preclinical, and clinical findings, we outline a proposal
for the use of oxytocin in the therapeutic neuroenhancement of contemporary romantic …

Background and objectives Even though love addiction is not recognized by DSM-5 as a
specific diagnosis, there is enough literature data to support its characterization as an …

Although the existence of dysfunctional love relationships is well known and the term “love
addiction” dates back to the 1970s, empirical studies on this topic are still limited. The …